We aim to test if investment in branding – specifically investment in advertising – improves a firms’ outcomes in the labor markets. A…Read More
Returns to Brand Building via Advertising
Funded Research Proposals
Employment before Entrepreneurship and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Venture Capital Financing
Venture capital is the key to fostering and supporting innovation. However, there is huge gender bias in venture financing market. In 2017, only 2.2% of total venture funding went to female-founded firms in US, despite the fact that female entrepreneurs own 38% of total business in the country.…Read More
Yes, in My Backyard: Sharing Economy and Neighborhood Impact in New York City
Innovations in sharing economy have allowed platforms to directly connect with consumers, thus utilize goods and services in more efficient ways. The impact of sharing economy on local business conditions and economic landscape is an empirical question.…Read More
New Technologies to Detect and Mitigate Unethical Conduct
Activities such as employee theft, dishonest reporting, and fraudulent bookkeeping impede innovation and disrupt the cultural and practical goals of organizations.…Read More
Behavioral and Operational Lens into Managing Flexible Workforce
On-demand or gig economy has been growing dramatically in the past decade and is starting to become an everyday feature of modern society. Although independent contractors have been around for centuries, recent technologies allow workers to quickly connect with customers online and create new work arrangements. …Read More
Commensurability and Collective Impact in Strategic Management Research: When Non-replicability Is a Feature, Not a Bug
Strategic management theories can be enhanced by considering their applicability across various actors and contexts. …Read More
Power to X – Why and When to Use Electricity to Make Gas Renewable
With this proposal, we request research funding for the development of one paper studying the operational benefits of Power-to-X technologies to discern when shifting power systems to renewable oil and gas becomes optimal.…Read More
Hate Content on Social Media and Artificial Intelligence
Social media platforms now start largely relying on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to automatically detect and remove UGC believed to be harmful.…Read More
Reference Point Dependence under Dynamic Pricing
Alongside advances in technological innovation, dynamic pricing — which allows prices to change according to current market conditions — has played an increasingly important role in marketing.…Read More
Introducing LIVA to Measure Long-term Firm Performance
This article introduces a new measure of long‐term firm performance: long‐term investor value appropriation (LIVA). …Read More
Financing Local Innovation
What is the impact of financing on innovation, and how do entrepreneurs strategically access credit? Innovative ventures need advance financing, but they face unique obstacles to credit access. …Read More
Exploring Power and Innovation in Multi-party Alliances
This research project seeks to explore how differences within the members of a multi-party alliance (MPA) – specifically differences in power – impact innovative outcomes of the alliance using a unique dataset of over 345,000 pages of project documents covering approximately 3000 MPAs.…Read More
An Experiment to Enhance Narrative Feedback to Improve Quality of Health Care
This project consists of a field experiment to assess a two-stage intervention intended to enrich healthcare professionals’ learning from patient experiences, as recounted in patients’ own words.…Read More
In the Shadow of the Valley: Private Equity Firms’ Increased Prominence in High-Tech Acquisitions
Why and how do private equity (PE) firms engage in technology acquisitions, and how do they create and capture value in these transactions? Observational data shows initial evidence that not only are PE firms engaging in an increasing number of technology buyouts, they are also seemingly behaving in distinct ways from both corporate acquirers, as well as PE firms in industries other than high-tech.…Read More
What is the Importance of Pivoting for Firm Growth?
Does pivoting matter? How does it affect investment in innovation and firm performance? My goal is to analyze the relevance of pivoting for the development of a small firm into a mature one and to provide a better understanding of what constitutes a small firm.…Read More
Leapfrogging for Last-Mile Delivery in Health Care
Lowering the cost and increasing the speed of last mile delivery are major challenges for the distribution channels of most industries. These challenges are even more severe in developing countries, where a large part of the population is located in rural areas, and where the lack of physical infrastructure results in a sizable part of the population residing in isolated areas, compromising their access to important services for their investment in human capital, such as timely health care.…Read More
Being Innovative Pays Off, But When?
The research objective is to determine how quickly product innovation translates into higher stock market valuations. The novelty in the research approach is using online consumer reviews on websites including Amazon, eBay; combined with stock market data.…Read More
Adoption of Predictive Analytics: Impact of Model Interpretability
One of the most important trends in business in recent years has been the growth of Big Data and predictive analytics. The trend started with traditional analytics and the emergence of decision support systems. With advances in machine learning (ML), systems can now take in large amounts of data, learn how human decision-makers have made decisions in the past, and make decisions autonomously (achieving human-level or superhuman performance in many activities). …Read More
Impact Investing and Information Disclosure as Tools of Environmental Governance
Climate change remains a grand challenge of our time. Numerous actors relevant to business—both public and private—have worked to reduce or otherwise mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, and to focus management attention on the issue of climate change.…Read More
Corporate Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Product Development
Increasingly, corporations are investing in entrepreneurial firms. This trend has not been overlooked by researchers in the management literature, but the majority of research studying the effects of corporate venture capital (CVC) overwhelmingly takes the perspective of the organization with the venture capital operation. …Read More